This sweet Ragdoll is a cat commission I just finished. The drawing is 8" x 10" and was done with Prismacolor pencils on Fabriani hot press 300 lb. watercolor paper. While I loved working on her eyes in particular, the whole cat was fun with her many different colors and textures of fur. The eyes photographed a little too blue here, but she really does have very blue eyes. Her name is Lily Bart, after the heroine in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. She seems much more content than her namesake. I really enjoyed working on this one (thanks, Molly)!
Here's what I've been up to lately--making this:
into this:
A 4 oz. blue faced leicester roving from squoosh, in the colorway Taffy. Squoosh has a nice shop on ETSY, but she's in the middle of moving back to the States from abroad and hasn't got her shop open yet. She has some lovely hand-dyed rovings.
The BFL has been a dream to spin, very easy to draft, and it's going along really quickly. People say that about blue faced leicester, that it's a good beginner's fiber. As a beginner, much of spinning is still a mystery to me. I couldn't say what weight or how much yarn there will be when I'm done, or whether the twist will be right nor not. But, my idea for this yarn is that it might be fun to spin something in another color and then combine the two handspun yarns into a fair isle something (tea cozy? pillow? pair of socks?)
It's been about the doing, not with the goal in mind.
